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2 Enigmas of the Northern Sky and Earth    220
3 On Hungarians and Laplanders    230
4 Authority Crumbling 
  256
6 “Tahiti and Vardø will be the two columns […]”: Observing Venus and
Debating the Parallax    258
1 Mission Accomplished    260
2 Accomplishment Contested    269
3 A Peculiar Nachleben    298
7 Disruption of Old Structures 
 
305
1 Habsburg Centralization and the De-centering of Hell    306
2 Critical Publics: Vienna, Hungary 
  315
3 Ex-Jesuit Astronomy: Institutions and Trajectories 
  330
8 Coping with Enlightenments 
  344
1 Viennese Struggles   
344
2 Redefining the Center   
366
Conclusion: Borders and Crossings 
  388
Appendix 1 Map of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus
(with Glossary of Geographic Names)    394
Appendix 2 Instruction for the Imperial and Royal Astronomer
Maximilian Hell, S.J.    398
Bibliography 
  400
Index 
  459
					
				
						Maximilian Hell (1720–92)
							And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
								
				- Titel
- Maximilian Hell (1720–92)
- Untertitel
- And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
- Autoren
- Per Pippin Aspaas
- László Kontler
- Verlag
- Brill
- Ort
- Leiden
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-41683-3
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Seiten
- 492
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Physik
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments VII
- List of Illustrations IX
- Bibliographic Abbreviations X
- Introduction 1
- 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces 37
- 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science 91
- 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell’s Transition to Fame 134
- 4 The North Beckons: “A desperate voyage by desperate persons” 172
- 5 He Came, He Saw, He Conquered? The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum 209
- 6 “Tahiti and Vardø will be the two columns […]”: Observing Venus andDebating the Parallax 258
- 7 Disruption of Old Structures 305
- 8 Coping with Enlightenments 344
- Appendix 1 Map of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus (with Glossary of Geographic Names) 394
- Appendix 2 Instruction for the Imperial and Royal Astronomer Maximilian Hell, S.J 398
- Bibliography 400
- Index 459